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Geography

1. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
Size and Location

●One of the ancient civilisation in the world.
●Achieved multifaceted socio economic progress during the last five decades.
●Contributed significantly to the making of world history.
India
Significance of the chapter

2. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
●Location
●Size
●India and the World
●India’s Neighbour
What we are going to study in this chapter?

3. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
●India is a vast country.
●Lying entirely in the Northern Hemisphere.
●The main land extends between
■Latitudes - 8
o
4’N and 37
o
6’N
■Longitudes - 68
o
7’E and 97
o
25’E
●The Tropic of Cancer (23
o
30
’
N) divides the
country into almost two equal parts.
India: Location
India

4. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation

5. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
●To the Southeast and Southwest of the
mainland, lie the Andaman Nicobar
Islands and the Lakshadweep Islands in
Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea
respectively.
●The Southernmost point of the Indian
Union - Indira Point got submerged under
the sea water in 2004 during the Tsunami.
India

6. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
●The land mass of India has an area of 3.28 million
square km.
●India’s total area accounts for about 2.4 per cent
of the total geographical area of the world.
●India is the seventh largest country of the world.
●India has a land boundary of about 15,200 km.
The total length of the coastline of the mainland
including Andaman and Nicobar and lakshadweep
is 7,516.6 km.
India: Size

7. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation

8. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
●India is bounded by the young fold mountains in
the Northwest, North and Northeast.
●South of about 22
o
North latitude, it begins to
taper and extends towards the Indian Ocean,
dividing it into two seas, the Arabian Sea on the
West and the Bay of Bengal on its East.
India, Geography and Location

9. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
●The latitudinal and longitudinal extent of the mainland is about 30
o
.
●Despite this fact, the East - West extent appears to be smaller than the North - South extent.



: Influences the sunrise and sunset from East to West.
: Influence the duration of day and night, as one moves from South to North.
India: Longitude and Latitude and their Significance
Longitudinal Extent
Latitudinal Extent
Explain

10. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation

11. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
From Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh, there is a time lag of two hours.
Longitudinal extent
Implications
Hence, time along the Standard Meridian of India (82
o
30’E)
passing through Mirzapur (in Uttar Pradesh) is taken as the
standard time for the whole country.

12. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
Why 82
0
30’E has been selected as the Standard Meridian of India?

13. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
Why is the difference between the duration of day and night
hardly felt at Kanyakumari but not so in Kashmir?

14. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
●The Indian landmass has central location between the East and the West Asia.
●Southward extension of the Asian continent.



●The trans Indian Ocean routes, which connect the countries of Europe in the West and the
countries of East Asia.
●The Deccan Peninsula protrudes into the Indian ocean, thus helping India to establish close
contact with West Asia, Africa and Europe from the Western Coast and with Southeast and
East Asia from the Eastern Coast.
●No other country has a long coastline on the Indian Ocean as India has.
Strategic central location in India
∴ It is India’s eminent position in the Indian Ocean, which
justify the naming of an Ocean after it.
India and the World

15. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
India’s contact with the world
●India’s relationship with world through the land routes are much older
than her maritime contacts.
●The various passes across the mountains in the North have provided
passages to the ancient travellers, while the oceans restricted such
interaction for a long time.
●These routes have contributed in the exchange of ideas and commodities
since ancient times.
How?

16. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
●The ideas of the Upanishads and the Ramayana, the stories of Panchatantra, the Indian
numerals and the decimal system thus could reach many parts of the world.
●The spices, muslin and other merchandise were taken from India to different countries.
●On the other hand, the influence of Greek sculpture and the architectural styles of dome
and minarets from West Aisa can be seen in different parts of our country.
The exchange of ideas and commodities through these routes

17. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
Suez Canal
Since the opening of the Suez Canal in
1869, India’s distance rom Europe has
been reduced by 7,000 km.

18. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation

19. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
●India occupies an important strategic position in
South Asia. India has 28 states and Eight union
Territories.
●India shares its land boundaries with Pakistan and
Afghanistan in the Northwest, China (Tibet), Nepal
and Bhutan in the North and Myanmar and
Bangladesh in the East.
●Our southern neighbours across the sea consist of
the two countries, namely Sri Lanka and Maldives.
India’s Neighbours
India and South Asia

20. Class 9th - Geography - India: Size and Location - Full Chapter Explanation
●Sri Lanka is separated from India by a narrow
channel of sea formed by the Palk Strait and the
Gulf of Mannar, while maldives Islands are situated
to the South of the Lakshadweep Islands.
●India has had strong geographical and historical
links with her neighbours.